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Andrea Steiger Ursula Mitzka-Schnabel Werner Rau Júrgen Soll Wolfhart Rüdiger 《Phytochemistry》1985,24(4):739-743
The incorporation of [14C]mevalonate and [14C]isopentenyl diphosphate into geranylgeranyl diphosphate was investigated in in vitro systems from Cucurbita pepo (pumpkin) endosperm and from Avena sativa etioplasts. Mevalonate incorporation was effectively inhibited in the pumpkin system by geranylgeranyl diphosphate and geranylgeranyl monophosphate but less effectively by phytyl diphosphate or inorganic diphosphate. Membrane lipids, geranyllinalool, or lecithin enhanced mevalonate incorporation in the Cucurbita system. Incorporation of isopentenyl diphosphate was also enhanced by lecithin and inhibited by geranylgeranyl diphosphate in the Cucurbita system. No lipid enhancement was found in the Avena system; inhibition by GGPP required a much higher GGPP concentration than in the Cucurbita system. 相似文献
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Yoshida T Asanuma M Grossmann L Fuse M Shibata T Yonekawa T Tanaka T Ueno K Yasuda T Saito Y Tatsuno I 《FEBS letters》2006,580(22):5203-5207
Isoprenylation of geranylgeranyl-pyrophosphate (GGPP) is critical for activation of small GTPases. We examined the roles of GGPP synthase (GGPPS) during the differentiation induced by the cell-to-cell contact in osteoblastic cell line MC3T3-E1 cells. We found that (1) both mRNA and protein expression of GGPPS was reduced with decrement of its activity during the differentiation, (2) GGOH, which is converted to GGPP in the cells, inhibited differentiation. These results suggest that the decrement of GGPP is critical for the cell-to-cell contact-induced differentiation, in which the down-regulation of GGPPS might be involved. 相似文献
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Statins are inhibitors of the mevalonate synthesis pathway that induce apoptosis in tumor cells although the apoptotic mechanism activated by statins remains to be elucidated. We have examined the role of the mitochondria-operated pathway of apoptosis in the cell death induced by statins in breast tumor cells and its regulation by protein prenylation and ErbB2 overexpression. Lovastatin treatment down-regulates the expression of Bcl-2 and activates apoptosis through a mitochondria-operated, ErbB2- regulated mechanism. Apoptosis induced by statins is independent of their effects on cholesterol synthesis and involves protein prenylation. Our results indicate that prenylation of apoptosis-regulating proteins is a key event in the survival of breast tumor cells and this requirement could be circumvented in cells overexpressing the oncogene ErbB2. 相似文献
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Meredith B. Jones Julian N. Rosenberg Michael J. Betenbaugh Sharon S. Krag 《Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)/General Subjects》2009
N-linked protein glycosylation was originally thought to be specific to eukaryotes, but evidence of this post-translational modification has now been discovered across all domains of life: Eucarya, Bacteria, and Archaea. In all cases, the glycans are first assembled in a step-wise manner on a polyisoprenoid carrier lipid. At some stage of lipid-linked oligosaccharide synthesis, the glycan is flipped across a membrane. Subsequently, the completed glycan is transferred to specific asparagine residues on the protein of interest. Interestingly, though the N-glycosylation pathway seems to be conserved, the biosynthetic pathways of the polyisoprenoid carriers, the specific structures of the carriers, and the glycan residues added to the carriers vary widely. In this review we will elucidate how organisms in each basic domain of life synthesize the polyisoprenoids that they utilize for N-linked glycosylation and briefly discuss the subsequent modifications of the lipid to generate a lipid-linked oligosaccharide. 相似文献
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Peter Hedden Bernard O. Phinney Jake MacMillan Valerie M. Sponsel 《Phytochemistry》1977,16(12):1913-1917
The plant growth retardant, N,N,N-trimethyl-1-methyl-(2′,6′,6′-trimethylcyclohex-2′-en-1′-yl)prop-2-enylammonium iodide, is shown to block gibberellin biosynthesis in Gibberella fujikuroi between mevalonate and ent-kaur-16-ene, probably by inhibiting ent-kaur-16-ene synthetase A-activity. In the presence of the plant growth retardant, cultures of the fungus incorporate (26.5%) added ent-[14C]-kaur-16-ene into gibberellin A3. Under the same conditions kaur-16-ene, 13β-kaur-16-ene, and ent-kaur-15-ene are not metabolised to gibberellin analogues. 相似文献
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A cell-free enzyme system, which catalyses the incorporation of radiolabel from [-14C]isopentenyl pyrophosphate into the sesquiterpenoid phytoalexin lubimin, has been prepared from tuber tissue of Solanum tuberosum inoculated with an elicitor preparation from Phytophthora infestans. Biosynthesis of lubimin is optimum at pH 7.-7.5 and is dependent upon Mg2+ and NADPH. Lubimin labelling by cell-free enzyme system prepared from tissue 48 hr after treatment with elicitor rises rapidly to a maximum over the first 30 min of incubation and does not decline for a further 150 min. The biosynthetic capacity for lubimin in cell free extracts can be observed as early as 3 hr after inoculation of tuber tissue, and rises to a maximum at about 48 hr after treatment, declining thereafter. Lubimin labelling is inhibited by iodoacetamide, the effect of which is reversed by 3,3-dimethylallylpyrophosphate. Preliminary observations on the cell-free system show that it will also catalyse the incorporation of [2-14C]mevalonic acid into lubimin in the presence ofan ATP-generating system. 相似文献
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Zhu XuFen Suzuki Kengo Saito Takeshi Okada Kazunori Tanaka Katsunori Nakagawa Tsuyoshi Matsuda Hideyuki Kawamukai Makoto 《Plant molecular biology》1997,35(3):331-341
We have cloned a new geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate (GGPP) synthase gene, designated GGPS6/, from Arabidopsis thaliana genomic DNA. Nucleotide sequence analysis revealed that the GGPS6 gene contains an open reading frame coding for a protein of 343 amino acid residues with a calculated molecular mass of 37 507 Da. Also, the gene is not interrupted by an intron. The predicted amino acid sequence of the GGPS6 gene shows significant homology (34.0–57.7%) with other GGPP synthases from Arabidopsis. The GGPS6 protein contains a N-terminal signal peptide which is thought to function as an organelle targeting sequence. In fact, the GGPS6-GFP fusion protein was found to be localized exclusively in mitochondria when expressed in tobacco BY-2 cells. In vitro analysis of the enzyme activity as well as genetic complementation analysis with Erwinia uredovora crt gene cluster expressed in Escherichia coli showed that the GGPS6 gene most certainly encodes a GGPP synthase catalyzing the conversion of farnesyl pyrophosphate to GGPP. 相似文献